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Rats Quotes - Page 5

Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.

Letter to Bolingbroke, 21 March 1730, in Harold Williams (ed.) 'The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift' vol. 3 (1963) p. 382

We do not need to burn down the house to kill the rats

Herbert Hoover (1934). “Challenge Liberty”

I'm a gym rat, I have to admit. I live in the gym, and now that I don't have to get beat up for a living, I can truly enjoy taking care of myself without worrying about breaking my leg or getting paralyzed.

"Actor Thomas Q. Jones: Making it out of a small town and a positive perspective on failure". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite, while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low.

Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.120, Cambridge University Press

It was a pleasure, Enna, Finn, tree rat." "Did she just call you tree rat?

Shannon Hale (2010). “River Secrets”, p.43, A&C Black

A bureaucrat is one who has the power to say "no" but none to say "yes."

Russell L. Ackoff (2006). “A Little Book of F-Laws”, p.12, Triarchy Press Limited

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle”, p.147, Nicholas Brealey Publishing